Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program

少数族裔博士前奖学金计划

• 批准号: 6590046
• 负责人: Kushang Patel
• 金额: $ 2.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-06 至 2005-01-05
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6590046
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; cognition disorders; epidemiology; functional ability; human data; human mortality; human old age (65+); longitudinal human study; predoctoral investigator; racial /ethnic difference; sensory disorders; social psychology; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the proposed research is to use the Disablement Process model to examine mechanisms through which neighborhood characteristics influence the development of disability and the risk of mortality in older Mexican Americans. This project will use longitudinal data from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE), a probability sample of 3,050 older Mexican Americans residing in five southwestern states. These data will be geocoded and merged with 1990 and 2000 US Census data. Primary outcomes include disability & mortality while secondary outcomes include medical conditions, cognitive & sensory impairments, and lower body function. The following are specific aims for the proposed project: Aim 1. Determine whether neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and neighborhood assimilation (lower percent concentration of Mexican Americans) are associated with stages of the Disablement Process model (pathology >>> impairment >>> functional limitation >>> disability) and mortality. Aim 2. Determine whether changes in neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and percent concentration of Mexican Americans between 1990 and 2000 correlate with stages of the Disablement Process model (pathology >>> impairment >>> functional limitation >>> disability) and mortality.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的目的是使用残疾过程模型来研究社区特征影响老年墨西哥裔美国人残疾发展和死亡风险的机制。该项目将使用西班牙裔老年人流行病学研究人口 (Hispanic EPESE) 的纵向数据，该数据是居住在西南部五个州的 3,050 名墨西哥裔美国人老年人的概率样本。这些数据将被地理编码并与 1990 年和 2000 年美国人口普查数据合并。主要结局包括残疾和死亡率，次要结局包括医疗状况、认知和感觉障碍以及下半身功能。以下是拟议项目的具体目标： 目标 1. 确定社区社会经济特征和社区同化（墨西哥裔美国人的浓度较低）是否与残疾过程模型的阶段相关（病理学 >>> 损伤 >>> 功能限制 > >> 残疾）和死亡率。目标 2. 确定 1990 年至 2000 年间社区社会经济特征的变化以及墨西哥裔美国人的百分比集中度是否与残疾过程模型的阶段（病理学 >>> 损伤 >>> 功能限制 >>> 残疾）和死亡率相关。